Josh Vincent is one of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP’s two most senior appellate lawyers. He has briefed and argued nearly 300 appeals resulting in 160 published decisions, many of them landmarks.
Mr. Vincent handles appeals arising from virtually all of the firm’s substantive practice areas. The majority involve professional and products liability, employment discrimination, and insurance coverage. He also works closely with the firm’s trial attorneys on critical and dispositive motions.
Unlike many appellate practitioners, Mr. Vincent tries cases and has won multiple jury verdicts in state and federal court. His grasp of jury trial dynamics and his ability to leverage that understanding in the reviewing courts is highly valued by clients and trial lawyers. The interdisciplinary nature of Mr. Vincent's appellate work and his track record of defense verdicts uniquely qualify him to litigate and manage trial-level matters on a multi-jurisdictional basis.
Mr. Vincent joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in May 1983. He was elected a partner in 1989.
Mr. Vincent is the firm's Director of Professional Development. In that capacity, he oversees the firm's Hiring, Attorney Life and Diversity Committees. He is also heavily involved in the education and mentoring of the firm’s young lawyers. Since 1998, he has had primary responsibility for running Hinshaw University, the firm’s nationwide attorney training and education program. Since 2002, he has been an elected member of the firm’s Executive Committee, and since 2003, Mr. Vincent has supervised the Chicago office’s incoming class of new lawyers in the pro bono prosecution of direct criminal appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
In 2007 Mr. Vincent was invited to serve as a member of the CLE Advisory Group to the Commission on Professionalism of the Illinois Supreme Court where he participates in the development of continuing legal education courses dedicated to professional responsibility. He is one of only a handful of lawyers recently trained by the Professionalism Commission to facilitate its latest pilot program. Mr. Vincent is also a member of the Illinois Appellate Lawyers’ Association, an organization in which he previously served as a director, and the American Bar Association.
He is a member of the Leading Lawyers Network, where he was selected by his peers as a “Leading Lawyer” in the category of Civil Appellate Law. In addition, Illinois Super Lawyers magazine named Mr. Vincent to the Super Lawyer list in the area of Business Litigation in 2005, and in the area of Appellate law annually since 2006.
For five years Mr. Vincent taught appellate brief writing at DePaul University College of Law. During the spring quarter of 2010, Mr. Vincent also taught an undergraduate constitutional law class at DePaul's Lincoln Park campus.
Mr. Vincent is a regular speaker at bar association seminars on topics such as appellate practice, trial practice, attorney training and education, health law and insurance coverage. His speaking engagements include:
- “Conflicts of Interest / Independent Counsel,” Chicago Bar Association seminar, “Emerging Issues in Insurance Coverage," Chicago, Illinois, April 2007.
- American Bar Association National Conference on Professional Responsibility, 2005.
- IIT-Kent College of Law Health Law Spring Symposium, 2003.
- Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers Section Insurance Law Seminars, 2003 and 2002.
- Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers Section Appellate and Trial Techniques Seminars, 2002 and 2001.
- Sedona Conference on Complex Managed Care Liability, 2000.